Dan Jacoby

West Pine

I lived on West Pine just west of Grand
fourth floor northeast corner Clemens–
Big room enough for three with the Roman couch maybe four
labored , a student, as a failed poet,
frightened choir boy looking to basic training–
helped each other through sickness, ruptured arteries,
lost, spurned loves, and those fun ambulance rides– but
at the end we lost each other and ourselves
in the establishment's stockyard reality that
innocent mad life replaced by a war, grad school,
drugs, and love-the culture we created
more fragile than imagined

Bio

University, and Governors State University. He has published poetry in Anchor and Plume(Kindred),
Arkansas Review, Belle Reve Literary Journal, Bombay Gin, Burningword Literary Review, The Fourth River,
Wilderness House Literary Review, Steel Toe Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and Red Fez to name a few.
He is a former educator, steel worker, and army spook. He is a member of the Carlinville Writers Guild.
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. He is currently looking for a publisher for a collection of poetry.